On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 16:13 -0500, Bob Paddock wrote: > > Scrap straight line rats in favour of using the topological auto-router? > > Do different rat lines help ship products? Not that I see.
I imagined (although I've not coded to verify), that more intelligent AUTO-routing of rats against existing board geometry / routed nets would be a huge time-saver (especially if combined with more powerful features to rubber-band existing nets). I forget the name used elsewhere, but the idea is akin to user-guided auto-routing, net by net. The rat-lines would show the routes each net would take (if chosen to be routed next). I was just throwing some ideas out there as food for thought (and so I don't forget them). I've got too many little .txt files lying around with one or two little ideas / design fragments, and I rarely come back to them! As I see it, PCB priorities (for me at least) are approximately: Release? Merge 2D parts of PCB+GL drawing Release? Merge 3D parts of PCB+GL drawing GUI to control PCB+GL rendering styles Release? Gather design details of file-format changes required for: 3D model support Package instantiation as offset + rotation, NOT duplication and in place modification (Also buys better rotation support) Arbitrary layer types Pad stacks Polygon pours Negative objects? Better polygon data-structures? Storage of layer colours / stack definitions Implement file-format changes (possible totally new file format?) Arbitrary layer types / stacks Arbitrary pad types / stacks Release? Pours support Release? 3D model support Release? <OTHER STUFF I TALKED ABOUT> -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user